Miserly is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 192 anagrams from letters in miserly (eilmrsy).
First recorded in 1585-95; miser + -ly
Mean and miserly as he was, he agreed to this with reluctance, and only as a measure of necessity.
It'll cost him more than he'll ever get from my miserly uncle to repair it.
I admired her charms, and I was delighted to see that she was not miserly in their display.
He was so careful, so—so miserly in some ways, so wildly extravagant in others.
Ask her to bear corn or pasture flocks, and she will be miserly and grudging.
A miserly daw, who would not risk a crown to save the crown.
Ruth remembered what Roberto had said about his miserly grandmother.
I decided not to be miserly for once and bought first-class tickets to be sure of a seat.
Ruth Fielding was an orphan and came to live with her miserly uncle.
It was not that Uncle Abimelech was miserly or that he grudged us assistance.